Minnie Driver: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Minnie Driver said elsewhere, not written here

I’d edit out all the awful men I managed to find who confirmed my worst suspicions about my body and my character.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 February 2023 source ↗

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Greg James British author, broadcaster, comedian, and presenter

If I had known what a stylist was when I joined Radio 1, I would have enlisted the help of one.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2019 source ↗

Ricky Wilson Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs

I might have carried on doing The Voice.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2020 source ↗

Steve Pemberton British actor and comedian

Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗

Ronald Harwood South African playwright and novelist

The death of my wife: I’d happily have gone first.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 November 2016 source ↗

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When I was starting out, in the early 90s, I had to fake an orgasm in a room full of male ad execs at an audition for a chocolate bar ad. It was grim.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 February 2023 source ↗